Rail.



W. H. WRIGHT &J. C. WOODS.

w. H. WRIGHT, 1a., EXECUTOR 0F w. H. WRIGHT, DECD.

RAIL.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 13. 1915.

Patented Sept. 21, 1915.

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WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, DECEASED, BY WILLIAM WRIGHT, JLEL, EXECUTOR, OF NORTHTONAVJANDA, AND JAMES C. WOODS, 0F LOCKPORT, NEl/V YORK, ASSIGNORS OFONE- THIED T0 SAMUEL H. PETTIT, OF LOCKPOR'I, NEW YORK.

RAIL.

Application filed March 13, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that W6,WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, Jr., acitizen of the United States of America, executor of the last will andtestament of WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, deceased, residing in North Tonawanda,county of Niagara, and State of New York, and JAuEs G. lVooDs, a citizenof the United States of America, residing in Lockport, county ofNiagara, and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Rails, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

One of the objects of our invention has been to provide a rail forrailways, which shall be continuous, thus dispensing with the use offish plates.

Another object has been to provide a rail having joints so arranged thatexpansion and contraction will be taken care of. Moreover, due to thetwo part construction of our rail the joints between any two sectionsare staggered so that spreading of the rails or jarring, due to improperalinement of rail sections, is entirely overcome. Furthermore, our railis especially advantageous for the reason that, when used, bonding bymeans of electric wires is obviated. Our rail has the same rigidity andsupport at each end of a section as it has in the middle thereof. Incase of a broken rail in either of the sec tions, the other section willhold the same in position, and thus avoid accidents.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis application, in which like characters of reference indicate likeparts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows an end, sectional elevation of ourimproved rail. Fig. 2 shows a perspective view of our rail partlyassembled.

Our rail is composed of two parts: a locking member 5 and a base member6. The base member 6 is formed with the usual flange 7 and web 8 and isseparate from the head of the rail. The upper edge 17 of the web 8 ispreferably of the same thickness as Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 21, 1915.

Serial No. 14,195.

the body of the web, and extending longi-v tudinally at about the middleof each slide thereof are two V-shaped ribs 9 and 10.

The locking member 5 of our rail comprises a head 1 1 and a downwardlyextending, integral, supplementary web 11, which lies parallel and incontact with the web 8 of the base member 6 when the parts areassembled. This supplementary web 11 is provided with a groove 12, whichregisters and fits over the longitudinal ridge 10. A reinforcement 13 isprovided on the supplementary web 11, and is disposed over where thegroove is formed. The head 14: is provided on its under side with alongitudinal groove 15, which is located adjacent to the inner face ofthe supplementary web 11. The upper edge 17 of the web 8 is arranged tofit into the groove 15. The lower edge 18 of the supplementary web 11 isarranged to fit into a longitudinal groove 16 formed in the flange 7 ofthe base member.

It will be seen by referring to Fig. 2 that when the rails areassembled, the joints of the two portions are arranged at differentpoints throughout the length of the track, thus keeping the railsections in perfect alinement. The rail parts are assembled by slidingthe locking member 5 longitudinally over the base member 6. When soassembled a series of our rails will form a jointless track and stillhave the strength and rigidity of the ordinary solid rail constructionbetween joints.

Having thus described our invention,what we claim is:

A continuous rail comprising, a base member and a locking member, saidlocking member overlapping the joints between two sections of basemembers, said locking member being formed with the head of the rail anda supplementary web, said supplementary web being formed with alongitudinal groove, said base member being formed with a flange and aweb, a longitudinal ridge formed on theweb of said base member andengaging the groove of said supplementary web, the head of the railbeing formed with a groove in its under side for receiving the signedour names in the presence of two subupper edge of the web of the basemember, scrlblng wltnesses.

the flange of said base member being pro- WILLIAM H.'VVRIGHT,JR., videdwith a groove for the reception of the As E meow/tor. lower edge of thesupplementary web of said JAMES C .WOODS. locking member, whereby thesaid members Witnesses: may be loc-kingly engaged. H. A. GRAF,

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto L. D. SIMSON;

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Washington, D. 0.

